Lamentations 1:3

Yehudah is gone into the Golus (Exile) under affliction, 1 and under great avodah (servitude); 1 she dwelleth among the Goyim; 1 she findeth no manoach (rest); 1 all her rodefim (persecutors) 1 overtook her in dire straits. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

In Context

2She weepeth bitterly in the lailah (night), 1 and her tears are on her cheeks; 1 among all her lovers she hath no Menachem (comforter); 1 all her friends have dealt treacherously with her; 1 they have become her enemies. 1

4The darkhei Tziyon (approaches to Tziyon) do mourn, 1 because none come to mo'ed (set feasts); 1 all her she'arim (gates) are desolate; 1 her kohanim sigh, 1 her betulot (virgins) are afflicted, 1 and she is in bitterness. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a fearful faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a cherev; and they shall fall v'ein rodef (when none pursueth, persecutes).

Deuteronomy 28:64And Hashem shall scatter thee among kol ha'ammim, from the one end of ha'aretz even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve elohim acherim, which neither thou nor Avoteicha have known, even etz va'even.

2 Kings 24:14And he carried away into the Golus all Yerushalayim, and all the sarim, and all the gibborei hachayil, even ten thousand Golus captives, and all the charash and masger (smiths, artisans); none remained, except the dalat am ha'aretz (poor people of the land).

2 Kings 25:21And Melech Bavel struck them, and slaughtered them at Rivlah in Eretz Chamat. So Yehudah was carried away captive out of their land.

Jeremiah 13:19The cities of the Negev shall be shut up, 1 and none shall open them; 1 Yehudah shall be all carried away into the Golus, 1 it shall be wholly carried away into the Golus. 1

Jeremiah 24:9And I will deliver them for abhorrence, for an offense to kol mamlechot ha'aretz to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a kelalah (curse) in all places where I shall drive them.

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 1:2-12

Lamentations Since what Solomon says, though contrary to the common opinion of the world, is certainly true, that sorrow is better than laughter, and it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, we should come to the reading and consideration of the melancholy chapters of this book, not only willingly, but with an expectation to edify ourselves by them; and, that we may do this, we must compose ourselves to a holy sadness and resolve to weep with the weeping prophet. Let us consider,… Read the whole commentary →

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